Here is something Category-Theorists like: it is trivial, but not trivially trivial.

This attitude [the abstract method in mathematics] can be encapsulated in the following slogan: a mathematical object is what it does.

It is obvious that mathematics needs both sorts of mathematicians, theory-builders and problem-solvers.

Although the prime numbers are rigidly determined, they somehow feel like experimental data.

... the atlas is a manifold. This is a typical mathematician's use of the word "is", and should not be confused with the normal use.

It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.

I'm trying to give my character voice but he won't speak.

If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay.

Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.

Have confidence, do your own thing, find your talent, and work at it to be the best. And always, always have fun!

The only way to effectively secure the common good is for the government to remain small.

The Psalms foretell what I, what any shall do and suffer and say.

Shakespeare was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of the books to read nature; he looked inward, and found her there.

I do like putting scenario and story first, and I actually like masking whatever I want to say in the guise of genre.

When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed